title: Treatment of hip subluxation in Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome.
abstract: We report a case of Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome, a skeletal dysplasia with short trunk dwarfism and mental retardation. A Chiari pelvic osteotomy was performed to halt hip subluxation on both sides. The patient was evaluated after 9 years and 10 months. The progressive lateral migration of the femoral head seemed to have been unaffected by this type of osteotomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Hosny
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fabry
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D000293:Adolescent; D001848:Bone Diseases, Developmental / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004392:Dwarfism; D005260:Female; D006618:Hip Dislocation, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D011859:Radiography; D013577:Syndrome